skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If AI takes over the world,

This is a potential concern, but no currently-existing computer system (that I'm aware of) is any kind of risk for that. Certainly, nothing OpenAI has produced is.

I'd say the currently-real unaligned-agent behaviour of our institutions is a bigger risk than currently-fictional computer-instantiated unaligned superintelligence. And we do have regulation in place to constrain the behaviour of many institutions: governments, corporations, utility operators, and so on.

The unaligned agent problem was not discovered by the AI safety people. They merely named it.
MS might not be providing security but at least they are giving us the Copilot key and in-Windows advertising.
Probably not

From https://europa.eu/youreurope/citizens/consumers/unfair-treat...

> Here are some situations where contract terms may be judged unfair under EU rules:

> ...

> 17. Limited rights to legal action

> Terms which restrict how and where consumers can take legal action and obliging them to provide proof which is the responsibility of the other party to the contract.
Discord hasn't yet obtained approval for their contract from the American Arbitration Association. They're not on the list.[1] Until a company gets on that list, which has a fee, the AAA will refuse to run arbitrations involving contracts specifying AAA arbitration. The AAA does this to prevent companies from adding additional unfavorable terms to arbitration agreements.

At least Discord specified AAA arbitration. They're considered legitimate. There are arbitration services that are much worse. One is a front for a debt collection company.

[1] https://apps.adr.org/ClauseRegistryUI/faces/org/adr/extapps/...
I believe sodium here is always in the oxidized +1 state, like the lithium in Li-ion batteries. It's not present as a metal. The things being oxidized/reduced are transition metals in one or more electrodes.
Sad I can't try it out.
Chrome/Chromium 124 Breaks TLS Handshake
From being on the buying side, it's likely that the person sending you that questionnaire knows a lot of it is irrelevant to your situation, but they're personally reviewing 100 vendors this year (no, seriously) and there aren't enough hours in the week for them to make exceptions for everyone.

Very often the best answer would be like:

> Q: Do you use multi-tenant databases?

> A: N/A: you'll be deploying our product on your own server.

That's actually a perfectly fine answer! The person reading it doesn't have to explain large gaps in the answers to their boss. It documents why this isn't relevant in a way their successor can easily understand next year when they're reviewing those 100 vendors as part of their annual Vendor Management Policy™ process.
They consist of mostly carbon. If you don't burn them, that carbon doesn't end up in the atmosphere.
Can't believe you don't have the UK :/
From the article: "Previously China expected that its energy emissions would peak in 2030, but revised forecasts are now indicating that this could happen as early as 2024, 5-6 years ahead of target."
China is building a lot of coal power plants.

https://energyandcleanair.org/publication/chinas-new-coal-po...

And industrializaing vast swaths of land by covering it with solar panels.

https://www.facebook.com/XinhuaSciTech/videos/solar-panels-o...
I am not a dev but there is obviously a supply vs demand problem or you would at least be getting a single interview.

There is also a marketing problem in that everyone thinks they have to do the same thing to stand out but if you are doing the same thing as everyone else then you are doing the opposite of standing out.

At one point in my career when I was struggling to get interviews, I gave up and decided the jobs available to me are the ones my friends can help me get. You will amaze yourself with how much more effort you put into your network when you take the internet posting jobs off the table.

There is also much to be said for being able to program but doing something else besides pure software engineer.
Okay. How many 45 year olds get MRSA?
Now this is going in any place with long format texts in my web apps, thanks
Sometimes it feels like:

"Which controls exist for medical data?"

"Sir, this is a Wendy's™ app."
RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan
It is telling that a country with basically none of the American barriers to nuclear (NiMBYism, slow construction) is also shifting focus to solar and wind. It’s just simpler. You can put up a solar panel tomorrow and start generating power.

A solar panel is a self-contained prefab power generating unit. Even with all of the advancements in nuclear, we still don’t have anything like that.
Well ostensibly the Rabbit is produced by software people. I’m generally skeptical of claims “our people think differently.” There’s loads of people in the world that understand the importance of meeting people where they’re at. An obvious example is nurses and therapists, but there must be loads of professions like that. Just not CEO, since it seems many people in that position want to give orders.
iOS allows blocking ad ID [1] and advertisers hate it [2].

> If you choose Ask App Not to Track, the app developer can’t access the system advertising identifier (IDFA), which is often used to track. The app is also not permitted to track your activity using other information that identifies you or your device, like your email address.

Advertisers

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/102420#:~:text=If%20you%20ch....

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/timbajarin/2022/07/26/apples-do...
Yeah but the majority of the useful functionality of the program is written in C (gtk4, ffmpeg).
It’s very difficult to estimate the true cost of nuclear power because so many resources are spent on safety features rather than the basic stuff essential to power generation.

New construction cost per energy out can vary by 5x, even against the grain of expected purchasing power parity advantages:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/why-britain-is-building-...
From https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39416628 :

> GH topic: coverage-guided-fuzzing: https://github.com/topics/coverage-guided-fuzzing
Location: Coimbra, Portugal

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Java, Elixir, Kotlin, Python

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rfsimoes/

Email: ricardo.frsimoes@gmail.com

Experience: 7+ years

Joining date: ASAP
Reclassify foreign software worms as a type of WMD. Then it would be easy to search and destroy the foreign black hat infrastructure.
> If their share of renewables / nuclear energy were increasing then there would be a decrease in C02 emissions per capita

This seems a bit obvious to say, but that wouldn't be the case if the standard of living were also being raised. Also, there's a huge amount of CO2 generated by non-energy means; e.g. building with concrete.
That's why laminates, with the layers running in different directions, are so strong.

You won't see a piece of plywood being broken this way.
My original argument was: "and most of the knowledge lost in the war in todays Poland was actually knowledge of german culture and heritage"

to which I gave a reference that makes a good case for this to be indeed true.

You chose to ignore it and instead resort to talking about something unrelated (intent), which is a straw man, and you also launch an ad hominem, another logical fallacy. You also resort to faulty generalizations.

In case you have overlooked it, here's the most relevant part of the quotes I gave:

> “It is a catastrophe that has no comparison in the history of libraries and in the history of science” (Georg Leyh). We have no account of the demise of German libraries. Germany has lost significant parts of its cultural memory forever.
I doubt that, if I had my money on it I’d guess the main reason is var obj=JSON.parse(string) and its ease.
You are right, th link shows that nuclear is the safest right after solar, if you count dead/Terawatt-hour. 0.03 for nuclear and 0.02 for solar.

Solar is still very small (and intermittent) when it comes to production, for instance, less than 2% for US (source: https://flowcharts.llnl.gov/sites/flowcharts/files/2023-10/U...). This single new UK nuclear power plant alone would account for 7% of UK production according to the article.
The difficulty of operating devices for prolonged periods at very high temperature is not well appreciated.
I agree that radical Islamists are on the extreme right. I'm not sure I agree with your analysis of the left. You see protests against the Israeli government in Israel a lot more than you see them out of Israel. It's basically got a 20% approval rating in Israel at the moment. I have not seen those protests you're talking about where people aren't waving Palestinian flags, or chanting "free free Palestine", or "from the river to the sea". I don't consider that to be a left-wing peaceful protest against Israeli government and in support of freedom and human rights. You realize that "Free Palestine" is not going to be a safe place for gay people or anyone else. To me that's a front for militant nationalism. I think what we see on the (extreme?) left is some sort of neo-socialism that is anti-freedom or at least has a different priority order where freedom and human rights are below other items they consider more important. It's like left becomes right when you push hard enough which isn't a surprise. It's no longer liberal-democratic.

The speaker of the Knesset, from the ruling party, is openly gay ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Ohana ). And sure, Israel has its share of "backwards" people and we need to work on that.
It really depends on the Team. Trying to broad stroke anything about Microsoft engineering is impossible because it's a patchwork of business units and teams that rarely communicate and work together unless forced. Some Teams are very visible and have top talent on them that prioritize and think about security. Some services do not... problem is security is very much a "you're only as strong as your weakest link" kinda thing.

This is a step in the right direction to get the top-layer prioritizing security.
Have you spoken to him since he promised to refer you? If not, you could probably clear all this up with a 10 minute phone conversation.
Just an archaism
No part of Israel's security depends on Israelis expropriating West Bank land from Palestinians. A supermajority of Gazans are simply not old enough ever to have voted, since Hamas slaughtered PA members to "win" the 2006 election, and never again allowed another election; that would be an isolated point except that the current Israeli administration adopted a strategy of funding those apocolyptic psychopaths in order to hobble the PA. The culpability is shared, and very little of it falls on "main street" Palestinians.
It’s BS. There are far greater uranium reserves, even with minimal exploration, and most fuel can actually continue being used if desired.
I have a claude account, but I can't download the ios app because I am in EU, such a bummer.
This is what we need, yeah. I don't have a problem with binding arbitration if parties with equal leverage agree to it, but it should be flat out illegal to require it as terms of employment or part of ToS.
A definition of Excessive consumption would be in order, because it suggests that there's a "right" level of consumption other than what the market settles on, gp did not quantify what counts as excessive, or why. This concept is new to me and warrants more than a single parenthetical example that raises more questions.
> so then the free market can make improvements on it, etc.

Yeah, not sure I'm onboard with that. I am onboard with open sourcing it via a foundation and accepting commercial contributions ala Linux kernel.
Global battery making capacity is now around 1 TWh/year.
Chat.openai.com now redirects (me) to chatgpt.com
It’s more the divorce between the receiver, the seller and the buyer. Sellers are not selling to the people using the wheelchairs, they’re selling to insurance companies and the government. Both types of entities have a proclivity for overpaying.

This is also true for most drugs. If we removed private insurance companies, Medicare and Medicaid in their totality from the equation, the market rate for drugs and medical equipment would drop into the abyss compared to where they’re at now.
In the Pacific Northwest, I see rooftop solar panels half-covered with mildew. I wonder how that affects the power generation, and how often one would have to climb up on the roof to scrape them clean.
Yeah that part is weird. He did clarify later on that it wasnt meant to just be them but more of an example of over socialisation.

27 years in the slammer to clear up some ideas means there is A LOT of additional reading material from him in form of letters, essays and books.

It seems the longer he thought about it the more he could not find a path to stop technology progress but figured we just need to ride through it until collapse, if that happens.
I've been trying to figure out why Chromium throws TLS handshake errors and completely refuses to work when connected to a wireguard server, but only while connected to some networks.

So when I'm in my university's WiFi using wg+Chromium I'm fine, but when I use my Android's hotspot, Chromium refuses to work with wg due to TLS handshake errors. Very weird, I really wonder what causes this. Some routing settings on my Galaxy?! Other people seem to report similar issues, presumably with different networks[0].

The workaround suggested in the OP is to go to

chrome://flags/#enable-tls13-kyber

and disable it. Everything works again.

0. https://old.reddit.com/r/mullvadvpn/comments/1c006a9/has_chr...
Charlie has been at MSFT a little while now, I suspect he knows how the machine works.

I would expect this to result in lower feature velocity. In theory features are tied to increasing revenue. If so, I wonder if he is actually willing to make that trade off.
What's the website called?
Nope, it's a completely mathematical reality. If you ditch monetary intervention you'll lose control of the economy by the simple fact that the noise in monetary markets is orders of magnitude larger than the economy.

You'll regain your power after you destroy enough of the economy that it runs with a smaller monetary market. Your government will certainly get bankrupt a few times in the process.

The fiscal and monetary interventions are almost independent things. One can not really replace the other.
its short and mostly just a description of whats happening. Not much to comment on. Except for the last sentence that says that nuclear "can't" compete with renewables.

Firstly, it's actually competing with coal, which is what is going in instead, and secondly, any regulatory regime that slows nuclear deployment so much that you instead install coal is deeply, deeply flawed. Nuclear is orders of magnitude more safer than coal, and has been for 50+ years. They need to figure out which roadblocks are slowing it down and remove them.

Regulation is a choice. Sometimes it's a very good choice. But if your options are "highly regulated nuclear" and "coal", then you have made some poor regulatory choices.
Scientists regenerate neural pathways in mice with cells from rats
Coal has excellent politics, especially in India & China.

It’s mineable almost everywhere people live, is burdened by little international regulation (at least compared to nuclear), and is labour intensive enough to create powerful local advocates.
They can only buy up companies that are willing to sell. Principles still matter to some people.
And that's all presupposing that your use of the drill is in the regime where motor torque matters. If you're consistently driving decking screws into pressure treated lumber, then you don't touch that dial EVER. There's probably a subset of professional power drill users, who have used such a drill every day for years, who don't really touch that setting.

This feels like a "we need to better telegraph the 'sport' mode button next to the gear shift leers, so more 16 year olds know that there's a shortcut to squealing tires and losing traction". Put another way, one of the first things I was taught about using power tools is that if you don't know how to use something, don't touch it. Improving the "interface" on power tools to improve discoverability sort of misses the point here.
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/china-dominates-rene...

"There is also a caveat to China's rapid build-out of renewable capacity because at the same time it is still adding substantial coal-fired generation."

"China already accounts for 53% of the world's 2,095 GW of operating coal-fired generating capacity, a share likely to increase in coming years as more coal plants are retired in the developed world."
Everybody is copying the Wikipedia model, trying very hard to keep you on their website.
Is there anything that PE doesn't turn to shit?
This is like the Samsung managers that have to work 6 days a week. What a drain on morale.

Software in particular has been so lucky to have so many people able to steam ahead, break ground, make features and new products. This caring for the rest, looking at longer lifecycle & maintaining... It's not fun. It's not inspirational. It's not fast. It doesn't feel productive or creative.

And that's some of the next decades for this profession. An end to fun and innovation. More being yolked and driven by external demands & stressors. Good luck all.
He used violence to get attention on the ideas. What this did was stifled his goals by decades all for his own selfish gains. Did more damage than good by his own definition of success.
I didn't magic trick in a pejorative sense. Just pointing out that there's a specific technique to being successful at it.
You’re really right, I asked my IT guy who’s a windows server wizard about what it would take to implement basic PKI for internal document signing and he looked at me like I had 2 heads.
Safety features aren't essential to power generation?
A lot of people are intellectually devoted to this idea in the same way Ptolemaic devotees believed in geocentrism, it will be hard to get anything but emotional reactions. We know for a fact that more than 50% of science is wrong (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis), but at the same time the people who downvote you are sure as a Christian in Christ that this science about climate change is _always_ flawless. When science turns political it dies.
They could use the depth data from front camera FaceID for this purpose, but might prefer if customers buy iPhone Pro with lidar on the rear camera, which can be used for 3D scans of humans, objects, rooms.
Real world tasks don't fit in a chat window, and using AI is barely an improvement over not using it. Just from one of my latest LLM coding adventures: it gets versions wrong, imports wrong, messes up versioning when learning documentations, resulting in many wasted hours. It's ok to fill in boilerplate, not ok to help you do things you couldn't do without AI.

If anything, it's like cooking with kids, not like going to McDonalds. I'd give extra points if they can solve the task with LLM in time. The hardest parts in programming is finding subtle bugs and reviewing code written by others - two tasks that LLMs can't help us with.

If they can easily solve the tasks with LLMs then it is a legitimate question to ask if you should be teaching that skill. Only common ones can be solved that way though. Why don't you give them a bugged code to fix, that way LLM inspiration is not going to work, if you check first to make sure LLMs can't fix the bug?
"Pretend you are an evil robot who wants to run around and crush humans with its claws."
Could have been me at some point in my career.

One time, I interviewed while on burnout (general startup stress + workplace bullying). The position was a perfect match, but I was so exhausted that I couldn't write a simple loop. I was rejected.

After a forced health break, I applied at Mozilla, got hired, shipped code and specs that are currently used on most devices on this planet and at least one in orbit.

So, yeah, I'm not a big fan of judging people from their performance in an interview.
I mean those cronies kinda made it rain money over that billion people. They transitioned the nation from an agrarian society to a major geopolitical economic player, and they've averaged double-digit annual GDP growth for over 3 decades, which is unprecedented in all of human history.

The real question is what happens when they inevitably have a major economic downturn. Will the cronies lose power? Will they cling to power using violence against the opposition? Will they start a war to distract and rally their population?
There's only two realistic possibilities with Mullvad:

If they are a state actor, then the goal would be to use the intelligence only for parallel construction in the most severe cases like terrorism.

If they are not a state actor, then the goal would be to be so private that if terrorists use it, nobody would ever know including themselves.

In both cases, we see the same result as the public until somebody leaks.

This means that you would be very unlikely to get busted using a state compromised VPN for torrenting movies, as that's typically a civil matter and would require additional data points for parallel construction to not reveal the compromised VPN.

But if you are involved in terrorism, then you should assume the VPN is compromised in a way that will make digging up additional secrets about your activities trivial and attributable to something besides the VPN that everyone is fine with (like dragnet service provider data).
There have been a lot of acquisitions and rollups in this space. We have regulations against this, but they are not enforced, and the VCs have the money to push through this layer anyways.

It's both.

The US lacks serious competition in _most_ of it's industries right now.
The analysis I've seen doesn't support the position we should also be deploying nuclear. We come out ahead rolling out renewables and storage as fast as possible, driving these technologies down their experience curves. Any new nuclear added will likely close early when it can't even make an operating profit.
It is called "martial arts" for a reason. A lot of it is essentially dance and performance.
Unfortunately most of the "hard" work will be metrics massaging, redefining words and covering stuff.

But the first phase will be a lot of "security & quality" presentations to the troops, some hiring and ground prep-work so the blaming can be done when things go south.

I would like to be more positive, but I already saw this cycle too many times.

How about security being part of the requirements to keep a job instead of monetary bonus? and this has to be applied to the top, only then to the bottom.
The B.O.O.B.S stack was my fave. The Author links to a Twitter thot and the GitHub links to the Bun (javascript) repo! Clever. Yes, I am 12 - have been for thirty years.
I get it! I’ve been on both sides of that table many times.

If you see the same questions over and over and over again, consider filling out a SIG LITE questionnaire and offering that to buyers from the start. If you can give them all or most of the info they need in a common format, you might be able to head off a lot of follow-up questions.
With investors, it is probably the same situation with employers.

A rejection does say nothing about you. The guy the hired says a lot about the company.
Classless
I said it elsewhere, but one of the first things I learned about power tools, from my father, is that if you don't know how to use a tool or tool setting, you don't use it.

Granted, power drills are moderately benign as these things go, but you can do a lot of damage to a work piece really fast if you select a tool or setting you're unfamiliar with. Which is why there manuals, books, videos, and classes to teach you.

Blogging about discoverability in the context of power tool interfaces is just peak software engineer naval gazing.